[SOLVED] HowTo: Extract and restore a single user mailbox from a tarball

Hi all guys,

I've a tarball (.tar.gz) with a complete /opt/zimbra rsync-ed inside, my backup script do it every night @ 3:00am .

If one of my customer call me for a restore of his mailbox (ok @ 3:00am) there is a way to restore from my tarball only this mailbox and not all tarball?
A fact is to restore a customer mailbox @ 3:00pm , another one is to restore all customers ...

I've a tarball (.tar.gz) with a complete /opt/zimbra rsync-ed inside, my backup script do it every night @ 3:00am .

If one of my customer call me for a restore of his mailbox (ok @ 3:00am) there is a way to restore from my tarball only this mailbox and not all tarball?
A fact is to restore a customer mailbox @ 3:00pm , another one is to restore all customers ...

In a script, it's as easy as getting a list of all users, then running the zmmailbox command for each user.

This could be a nice approach to the problem, now I'm asking how many GB/s are rsync-ed when script do a single user backup. Trying to estimate it for a 800-1000 mailbox c.a. .... Asking myself if this could be a valid choice to be done daily as cronjob or less ... what do you think about it?

Transferring from ZCS (Dual Quad-Core Xeon 2.2GHz, 7GB RAM, RAID1 SAS) to a NFS network server, it takes about an hour to backup 9.6GB (149 mailboxes) of these compressed archives.

This Zimbra setup is in a school, and the 149 mailboxes are just for staff - I don't bother with individual ones for students. I still do a full /opt/zimbra tarball every week though.

The main factors governing your backup speed will obviously be mailbox size, number of mailboxes, and your backup infrastrucutre/media.

I've put my script on my wiki page (Webman-Notes - Zimbra :: Wiki) for you to have a look at and use as you wish. On review, it actually backs up to the local disk first and then moves the file to NFS - feel free to experiment exporting directly to NFS though if you want

Probably I've gave a wrong explanation of what I was looking for, my bad.

In any case I've individued how to move around backups, and this is what I was trying to understand, probably becouse I'm new here around, and caming from a command line based system I'm a little stunned from all these innovations. This is a great community in my personal opinion.